时间:2019-02-18 作者:英语课 分类:新西兰英语


英语课

  It is surprising that Christchurch is still having after-shocks. It is now 4 months since the 7.1 earthquake on Sept 4th. Just as Christchurch people were starting to think that after-shocks had finished, the day after Christmas gave everyone an unpleasant surprise. There were about 20 shocks that day; the biggest one at 10.30 in the morning was 4.9 and right under the city. It caused a lot more damage to the central city. After-shocks are still continuing although not so big and not so often.

The mayor had hoped that all roads would be open again by the end of this month and all damaged buildings fenced off or repaired but that will not be possible. Some shops that were not damaged in September, were damaged on December 26th. Some may have to be demolished 1.

More people have made claims to the Earthquake Commission 2 for damage to their homes in the last two weeks. This brings the total of damaged homes to 152,000. Some of these homes are badly damaged while others just have broken chimneys. EQC has inspected and paid out for more than 70,000 claims but another 90,000 are waiting for an inspection 3. EQC had hoped to have all these claims finished by the end of March but that is not possible now.

Questions

Will the central city survive or will people shop in the suburbs instead? What can be done to bring people back into the city?



v.摧毁( demolish的过去式和过去分词 );推翻;拆毁(尤指大建筑物);吃光
  • The factory is due to be demolished next year. 这个工厂定于明年拆除。
  • They have been fighting a rearguard action for two years to stop their house being demolished. 两年来,为了不让拆除他们的房子,他们一直在进行最后的努力。
n.委托,授权,委员会,拥金,回扣,委任状
  • The salesman can get commission on everything he sells.这个售货员能得到所售每件货物的佣金。
  • The commission is made up of five people,including two women.委员会由五人组成,其中包括两名妇女。
n.检查,审查,检阅
  • On random inspection the meat was found to be bad.经抽查,发现肉变质了。
  • The soldiers lined up for their daily inspection by their officers.士兵们列队接受军官的日常检阅。
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/HPF
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income
administrative litigation
aeronautical communications satellite
agreement of intent
airborne craft
anomeric carbon
apasionado
archtop
ask off
audiofrequency apparatus
badrachoid
bell-type manometer
blocking capacitor
boat-ride
buy forward
chengdu
closing stroke
co-habits
collective recursion
common jade
complex simple fracture
composite bar diagram
cymbidium lowianum reichb.f.
data control unit
day-traders
density of line of magnetic force
descent lane
destinee
eighth grade
electroslag melting process
elementarily equivalent structures
elimination game
engineer's office
enzymatic deproteinization
eun-seong
field equipment of CTC
film response
fish backs spreader
fold geometrization of coal seam
function's free variable value
gas-reserve
gipsyfy
head like a sieve
high-grade ore
Honghe papeda
input resistor
irale
load curve
loaded radius
make hay out of
maneuver load control system
marinary
mason-slichter-hay method
mediaeval architecture
medical assessment
Meissner coil
Merkel cells
messuage
mixtures
nervous apoplexy
nirmala
non-traded
office-parties
ohmic resistance
ommatophores
over-self
oystershell veneer
palaeo-endemic
photoautotroph
Pinuspollenites
planned takeover
pulverizable
putt-putting
recheck level
regularization
rouleaux phenomenon
rt-PA
secondary pressure of reducing valve
senior school
singleleaf
spiderwood
sternophorids
stiff rotor
structural wall
supported-spindle type gyratory
swaggahs
swirl nozzle
symptomical
taste frequency theory
technical-grade
telotroch
torn-up
transfer office
transport bomber
unworkably
up to your neck
Vantaa (Vanda)
vardenafils
vertical single-pipe heating system
video processing circuits
zero day